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“She reflected - not for the first time by any means- that children's questions are calculated to show up the ignorance of their elders to a positively alarming extent. You thought you knew, but when you started to explain and to deal with searching inquiries as to why and how, you found yourself stumped.”
― Young Mrs. Savage
― Young Mrs. Savage
“Too much had to be fitted into youth: learning, growing, preparing, shaping. You went through it all, pushed, urged, encouraged or bullied by your elders; you went through it blindly and without any sense that the years were slipping away. And suddenly you came home and found that you were twenty-one and grown up. Perhaps other girls reached this stage of awareness earlier; she couldn't tell. For herself, it was enough to understand that childhood was over, and that it had been a time of great happiness. The bad times went unremembered, the memory of the good times endured.”
― Six Impossible Things
― Six Impossible Things
“Forget any of the rose-tinted idiots banging on about your wedding being the happiest day of your life. Weddings are a long, rain-drenched nightmare when the only sounds are your relatives venomously hissing in dark corners.”
― The Nothing Girl
― The Nothing Girl
“Listen, life is short… Choose to be with the people who really choose you, people who see you as irreplaceable.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“What I mean is, you know how there are people who die unexpectedly in an accident or from a sudden illness, and they never get the chance to say goodbye to anyone? Well, maybe, compared to them, I’m really fortunate. I still have time for all that.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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